With Apologies to My Wife
Pivoting between
the bowl with the apple
and plate with the peel,
I put some
one in the other
and other in the one.
Since such
sins of inattention
are frequent and real,
to God and woman
I humbly appeal:
Forgive the slivers
between tooth and gum,
and all the apple-
based deeds I have done!
marriage is a pretty good deal…